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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (51519)8/24/2013 11:36:21 AM
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No science deals with facts not values (it can study the history, sociology, psychology and even neurochemistry of those values, but then its dealing with facts and theories about values, not actual with the values as a value).

Science is about "is", not "ought".

Governments have to break up and monitor monopolies.

That isn't a scientific issue. Neither are any of the other issues you mention. Science (in this case largely economics which is pretty soft as a science), can give us useful facts to inform the decision. For examples it can point out the harmful effects of high minimum wages, and other forms of price controls. But it can't say "don't do it" without making a value judgement that takes it outside of science.

Also most monopolies, and the most destructive monopolies are created by government or protected by government. Actually government itself is the biggest monopoly.
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